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A Kind Of Afterglow Perhaps?

Andrew Boyle CONVERSION: A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY by Malcolm Muggeridge Collins, f10.95 W hatever his over-critical friends might say to the contrary, this possibly final slim volume......

Getting Down To Basic

Stephen Logan ARGUFYING: ESSAYS ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE by William Empson edited by John Haffenden Chatto & Windus, f25 L iterary criticism is apt to seem a rather superfluous......